Dharma not Drama

Date:

December 8 - 29
(22 meditations)

Time:

8:00-9:30am
Pacific (California) Time
for 4 live meditations (plus 18 recorded meditations - listen at your convenience)

Fee:

$27
Recordings Included

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Listen to a sample of one of Mary's Dharma not Drama Meditations

Imagine feeling more peaceful and relaxed during the holidays…

Sound impossible?

It's not. Quietly focusing (meditating!) on universal needs for just 20 minutes a day throughout the holidays can give you the gift of a more peaceful and enjoyable holiday season.

Such a simple activity to create a profoundly positive impact… How and why does it work?

It works because your core needs are the primary energy of your life. They provide the fundamental motivation for ALL your choices and behaviors. When you use meditation to connect with and become more conscious of those core needs, you become better able to meet them, and a more peaceful, happy, and authentic life follows.

Here's what happens internally when you do 20 minutes of daily meditation centered around connecting to your core needs:

Those are your internal benefits.

What about external benefits? How specifically can practicing a needs-based meditation help you successfully navigate the holidays?

First off, this kind of daily practice provides you with both perspective and insight into what YOU really want and need, enabling you to more easily decide which activities or events you may want to participate in, and which you may want to reinvent. Second, it helps you consciously — and ahead of time — connect with your need for self-support, increasing the likelihood that you'll experience the kind of energy you'd like to at this time of year. Third, what this practice will teach you about yourself can help you improve interactions with family and friends, and ensure that you'll be able to more easily walk through specific challenges you may face while spending time with loved ones.

Best of all, the benefits can last you a lifetime.

What Others Are Saying

I get so much from meditating on one need each day! Especially remembering that I am the energy of that need, and that I can bring that energy to a situation where it's feeling unmet — first acknowledging and grieving it in myself — then bringing it into the situation.
Thank you, Mary!  —Deb Goldman

I have loved this series on so many levels! It really starts my day out with such a solid connection with myself. I just love that you've created a way we can feel connected, that we're all family on these calls. I never need to feel alone — so nurturing!  —Kristi Doden

 

About Mary Mackenzie

Mary Mackenzie is a CNVC Certified Trainer, the executive director of the Peace Workshop International and co-founder of the NVC Academy. She holds an MA degree in Human Relations and is a trained mediator.

Mary is the author of Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing and Compassion.

Mary's first career was as a fundraiser in higher education, where her listening skills helped people realize their dreams and helped her raise millions of dollars for the universities for whom she worked. She ended this fifteen-year career to begin work with the newly-formed Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication and thus started her journey in NVC.

Mary's guiding vision is to help people fully connect to themselves and their world so that they may experience more joy. Toward this end, she teaches Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to individuals, families and couples, and she works with organizations by offering individual or group workshops and facilitating organization-wide restructuring. Her primary focus is to make NVC easy to understand and integrate, thus making it accessible to everyone. More...